Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.

You get greatness out of people by expecting it.

If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.

Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.

Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.

Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure.

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.

The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.